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A closed-loop drilling system utilizes a bottom hole assembly (“BHA”) having a steering assembly having a rotating member and a non-rotating sleeve disposed thereon. The sleeve has a plurality of expandable force application members that engage a borehole wall. A power source and associated electronics for energizing the force application members are located outside of the non-rotating sleeve. A preferred drilling system includes a surface control unit and a BHA processor cooperate to guide the drill bit along a selected well trajectory in response to parameters detected by one or more sensors. In a preferred closed-loop mode of operation, the BHA processor automatically adjusts the force application members in response to data provided by one or more sensors. In a preferred embodiment, the non-rotating sleeve and rotating member include a sensor that determines the orientation of the sleeve relative to the rotating member.

The invention relates to a hydro-oscillator for well drilling. The hydro-oscillator consists of a hydraulic driving assembly, a fixed valve assembly, a bottom assembly and a vibrating pipe nipple, wherein the vibrating pipe nipple is connected with the hydraulic driving assembly; a rotor is connected with a vibrating valve; the fixed valve assembly is arranged on the bottom assembly; and a power shell is connected with the bottom assembly. A drilling fluid is used for driving the rotor to rotate, and the rotor is used for driving the vibrating valve to vibrate, so that flow holes of the vibrating valve and a fixed valve are staggered with each other, and simple harmonic pressure waves are modulated and are upwardly transmitted to a disc spring for driving the vibrating shell to perform continuous simple harmonic vibration in the axial direction, so that the friction resistance between a drilling column and a well wall is improved effectively, and the drilling speed is increased; and meanwhile, pressure waves are downwardly transmitted to drill bit jet flow, so that periodic change of rock breaking pressure is facilitated, and rocks are crushed effectively. The hydro-oscillator has the characteristics of simple structure, convenience for operating, safety, reliability, low pressure drop, high adaptability, no influence on the drilling tool structure and the like, and plays an important role in increasing the drilling speed and reducing cost.

A method associated with the production of hydrocarbons. In one embodiment, method for drilling a well is described. The method includes performing drilling operations at one or more wells to a subsurface location in a field to provide fluid flow paths for hydrocarbons to a production facility. The drilling is performed by (i) obtaining mechanical specific energy (MSE) data and other measured data during the drilling operations; (ii) using the obtained MSE data and other measured data to determine the existence of at least one limiter; (iii) obtaining and examining lithology data for the well; (iv) identifying a primary limiter of the at least one limiter based on the lithology data; and (v) adjusting drilling operations to mitigate at least one of the at least limiter.

The present invention discloses one kind of high temperature recyclable microbubble drilling and completing fluid, which includes basic slurry comprising bentonite 1-2 (in weight portions, the same below), salt tolerant clay 3-5, sodium carbonate 0.2-0.3 and water 100; and additives comprising high temperature inhibitor 3-5, high temperature tackifier 2-5, high temperature filter loss reducing agent 3-6, high temperature salt resisting filter loss reducing tackifier 1-3, flow form regulator 1-3, high temperature foaming agent 2-5 and high temperature foam stabilizer 1-2.5. The high temperature recyclable microbubble drilling and completing fluid has excellent high temperature performance, high carrying, suspending capacity in low pressure deep well, and functions of inhibiting the hydrating expansion of mudstone and protecting oil and gas reservoir, is suitable for different types of high temperature stratum. It is applied in well drilling and well completing construction for low pressure and low permeation stratum.

A closed-loop drilling system utilizes a bottom hole assembly (“BHA”) having a steering assembly having a rotating member and a non-rotating sleeve disposed thereon. The non-rotating sleeve has a plurality of expandable force application members that engage a borehole wall. An orientation sensing system associated with the rotating member and the non-rotating sleeve provides signals to determine an orientation of the non-rotating sleeve relative to the rotating member. In one embodiment, the orientation sensing system includes a first member positioned in the non-rotating sleeve and a second member positioned in the rotating member. Orientation of the non-rotating sleeve relative to the rotating member is determined from the coaction between the first and second members. The orientation sensing system can use magnetic waves, electrical signals, acoustic signals, radio waves, and/or physical contact.

The invention belongs to the technical field of pipe whip restraint steel structures of main power houses of nuclear power station conventional islands, in particular to a production process method of the pipe whip restraint steel structure of the main power house of the nuclear power station conventional island, which comprises the lofting process, the marking-off and scribing process, the cutting processing process, the bevel processing process, the hole-making process, the correction process, the polishing surface, the material splicing process, the pre-splicing process of a steel member, the assembly process, the processing process of a friction surface, the welding process of the steel structure and the anti-slip test of the friction surface of the steel member before leaving a factory, sandblasting, derusting and coating of a base coat are carried out in the factory, and the production of the steel structure is divided into the production processing of a welded H-shaped steel column, the production of a steel beam, the assembly and the welding of a support part, the production of a combined steel beam, the assembly and the welding of a girder box body and an inclined support below the girder box body, and the assembly and the welding of a pipe whip restraint key. The production process method can improve the drilling precision, utilize a numerical control planar drilling machine to complete the drilling on a gusset plate, determine a variety of processing processes and welding process parameters, and ensure the dimension of the member after the assembly and the smooth proceeding of field installation.

The invention relates to well bore rail control and design that includes the process of determining well bore section shape, building equation set, expanding equation set, giving known parameters, and solving the equation set. It could meet the request of target intake direction and coordinate location, and could select 4 random feature parameters as the indeterminate parameters. The invention could improve drilling speed and wellbore quality, lower drilling cost.

The invention relates to a debris-core-borehole-reservoir multiscale shale reservoir three-dimensional fracturing evaluation method. The method comprises the steps of: (S1) calculating mineral content brittleness indexes in a shale coring position; (S2) building relations among an internal friction angle, I type and II type fracture toughness and rock mechanical parameters; (S3) building shale fracturing evaluation models comprehensively considering a mineral content, elastic parameters, the internal friction angle, a critical strain energy release rate and the rapture toughness; (S4) applying a support vector machine algorithm to obtain a cluster analysis mode between a reservoir fracturing performance and the elastic parameters; and (S5) applying the cluster analysis mode and a reservoir three-dimensional elastic parameter data body to obtain a debris-core-borehole-reservoir multiscale shale reservoir three-dimensional fracturing model. The method can be applied to obtain the fracturing performance of any space position in a shale reservoir, so that the well position selection blindness is prevented, and the fracturing modification effect and the after-pressing yield are improved.

The invention relates to a well drilling simulation test device. The well drilling simulation test device comprises a rock core clamping mechanism, a drilling mechanism, a pressing mechanism and a pressing control pipeline, wherein the rock core clamping mechanism and the drilling mechanism are concentrically arranged above and below a test frame; constant pressure liquid which is applied to the upper end of the rock core by a constant pressure pump of the pressing mechanism and constant pressure liquid or high pressure gas which is pressed on the rock core by a constant pressure pump of the drilling mechanism or a high pressure gas source are converged in a simulated cavity at the bottom of the well, and are controlled to flow out by the pressing control pipeline consisting of a filter, a back pressure device and a flowmeter; the back pressure device is connected with the high pressure gas source of the drilling mechanism and controls the pressure of the simulated cavity at the bottom of the well by controlling the gas supply pressure of the high pressure gas source; the pressing mechanism, a pressure sensor of the back pressure device and the flowmeter transmit signals to a computer; and change of related parameters is controlled by the computer program, so that various drilling schemes are simulated and tested, and indoor test data is provided for increasing drilling speed,improving drilling quality and reducing drilling cost.

One kind of mechanical type automatic vertically well-drilling tool, including turner, the conduction current head, the bearing, the counterweight, the spindle, in-tube, the back plate, above plate-valve, gets down plate-value, the shell, the piston cylinder back plate and the piston, its principle is at the right moment induces the well slanting gravity signal, by the gravity-actuates in the organization, the establishment drills inside and out the column high-low pressure channel between the fluid, uses two between the differential pressure, actuates the piston at the right moment to push depends on the wall of a well is high side, the wall of a well reacting force then pushes the drill bit to is low side, but in well-eye other positions, the piston does not push depends on the wall of a well, drills the column revolves, this process circulation reciprocation, the well is slanting namely is unceasingly induced and the revision, this invention realization is initiative, At the right moment guards against slanting at the same time, but also can effectively liberate distilling, largely enhances drills fast and well-eye the quality, reduces the construction risk, this invention has the structure is simple, reliable, is suitable to the many kinds of well drilling platform, the processing makes the maintenance cost is low and so on the characteristic.

This disclosure discusses techniques for obtaining wavelength selected simultaneously super pulsed Q-switched and cavity dumped laser pulses utilizing high optical damage threshold electro-optic modulators, maintaining a zero DC voltage bias on the CdTe electro-optic modulator (EOM) so as to minimize polarization variations depending on the location of the laser beam propagating through the CdSe EOM crystal, as well as the addition of one or more laser amplifiers in a compact package and the use of simultaneous gain switched, Q-switched and cavity dumped operation of CO₂ lasers for generating shorter pulses and higher peak power for the hole drilling, engraving and perforation applications.

The invention discloses a weak-gel synthetic drilling fluid, which comprises 60-95 parts by volume of gas oil synthetic base liquid, 5-40 parts by volume of calcium chloride watery solution of which the mass fraction is 25-35%, as well as 1.0-3.5% of organic soil, 0.5-4.0% of primary emulsifier, 0.5-3.5% of auxiliary emulsifier, 0.5-3.5% of calcium oxide, 0.5-2.5% of wetting agent, 1.0-4.0% of filtrate reducer, 20-100% of weighting agent and 0.3-1.5% of optional activating agent according to a mass-volume ratio based on total volume fractions of the gas oil synthetic base liquid and the calcium chloride watery solution. The drilling fluid disclosed by the invention has the advantages as follows: (1) the synthetic drilling fluid has good thixotropy, and high low-shear rate viscosity, and (2) the plastic viscosity of the drilling liquid is smaller than that of the traditional drilling liquid.

The invention relates to a water-based drilling fluid with high suppression and lubrication performance and a preparation method thereof. The water-based drilling fluid mainly comprises 100 parts of fresh or sea water, 2 to 10 parts of inorganic salt, 0.2 to 5 parts of amine strong suppressant which is a product of reaction of a naphthenic amine compound and a bronsted acid, 0.1 to 1 part of coating inhibitor, 0.1 to 1 part of tackifier, 0.1 to 1.5 parts of filtrate reducer, 0.5 to 5 parts of anti-mud-coating lubricating agent, 1 to 10 parts of temporary plugging agent and a proper amount of weighting agent (added according to requirements). The drilling fluid provided by the invention has high suppression performance and lubrication performance, can effectively protect an oil gas layer and is a novel drilling fluid system which can replace oil-based drilling fluid.

A drill bit consists of a bit body having a forward end and a slot in the forward end to hold a hardened cutting blade. The bit body has a table near the center of the blade to reduce the speed at which the drill bores into hard material. The blade has a central slot extending into the forward end thereof such that the slot defines inner side walls and a bridge extending between the inner side walls. The bridge has sloping sides the define a central cutting edge so as to cut particles of hard material accumulating in the slot. The inner side walls intersect the leading faces of the blade and form cutting edges which further cut particles loosened at the center of the cut. Also, relief flats relieve the concentration of forces at the ends of the primary cutting edges of the blade.

The invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum drilling engineering and particularly relates to a negative-pressure jet-type particle impact drilling injection device. A balanced-pressure jet pipe is installed on one side of a material inlet at the top of a high-pressure particle injection tank, a jet anti-blocking sprayer is arranged at one end of the balanced-pressure jet pipe, the other end of the balanced-pressure jet pipe is arranged at the top of a main pipe manifold, the jet anti-blocking sprayer is arranged at the bottom of the high-pressure particle injection tank, a negative-pressure particle injection pipe is arranged at the bottom of a material outlet, a nozzle is arranged at one end of the negative-pressure particle injection pipe and communicated with the main pipe manifold, a regulating pipe is arranged at the bottom of the main pipe manifold, the tail end of the regulating pipe is communicated with an outlet of the negative-pressure particle injection pipe, and a regulating valve is arranged in the regulating pipe. The negative-pressure jet-type particle impact drilling injection device adopts the self-rotating type jet anti-blocking sprayer, achieves omnibearing and multi-angle stirring on the material outlet of the high-pressure particle injection tank, is easy, convenient and safe to operate, serves as one of three core systems of the particle impact drilling new technology, and is simple in processing and manufacturing, convenient to detach, stable in performance and capable of remarkably improving the drilling speed of extra-hard wear-resisting stratum of deep well.

The invention relates to a single-action double-pipe coring overburden drill tool for an air down-the-hole hammer. The single-action double-pipe coring overburden drill tool comprises a central coring drill tool and an overburden drill tool. The central coring drill tool is a single-action double-pipe coring drill tool and comprises a single-action vibration reduction mechanism, an inner pipe adjusting mechanism and a coring mechanism with a bayonet device; the single-action vibration reduction mechanism comprises an impact connector, a disc spring, a bearing block, a connecting shaft, a thrust ball bearing and a radial ball bearing; the inner pipe adjusting mechanism comprises a connecting shaft, a core pipe connector, an inner pipe and a nut; the coring mechanism with the bayonet device comprises an outer pipe, an inner pipe, a connecting shaft, a core pipe connector, a coring drill bit, a rolling needle, a pawl spring seat and a pawl spring; the overburden drill tool comprises a casing, a casing connector, a casing shoe, a clamp ring and a casing drill bit. The single-action double-pipe coring overburden drill tool for the air down-the-hole hammer is applicable to relevant fields such as geological mineral exploration and engineering geological survey for complex formation with loose sand, cobbles, gravel, fracture, breakage and the like.